are you talking about these?:
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kimi_ga_koi_ni_oboreru/
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kimi_ga_koi_ni_midareru/
Ive actually never read these but i know they are not the sequels to libety, liberty, but they are of Kimi ga Koi ni Ochiru.
Hi Kathy! (I was tempted just to PM you directly, since I suspected if anyone knew the answer to this, it would be you.)
Kimi ga Koi ni Oboreru was the sequel to which I was NOT referring, the one I mentioned in brackets. It's a great story, but not that one.
Did I just dream up this sequel idea? The storyline seems so clear to me, but I've been wrong before.
Actually, I don't think you were dreaming up that story, cause i'm pretty sure i have seen others ask for the same (at least very similar) to that plot. I remember someone also answering and I thought it was one of the ones I gave you, but maybe it's by a whole different mangaka.
Those are the stories which concern a brilliant kimono painter and a jealous rival. Same author, similar theme. But they don't involve a plagiarized script/screenplay, and they have nothing to do with the writer, Itaru, and camera operator, Kouki, or the comic universe of Liberty-Liberty. I was sure Takanaga had taken that story further, and I was looking forward to reading how Itaru's reputation is redeemed.
Thanks, anyway.
Does anybody know if Takanaga Hinako ever wrote a sequel to Liberty, Liberty? It seemed to me I recalled a second story where Itaru is enjoying some personal success as a screenwriter, and the former friend who betrayed him by plagiarizing his work comes back to finish the job by accusing him of what he, himself, did, which is to steal his ideas.
Or am I confusing this with something else entirely? (I know there is one involving a kimono fabric designer hounded and terrorized by someone who was jealous of his success, but that was a completely different story.)